In this trade & export finance webinar, Sam Fowler-Holmes, Partner, and Daniela Barrdear, Counsel, consider some of the drivers behind the ever-growing trade finance gap...
As the dust settles on the Athens edition of Global 2024, how should the industry reflect on its progress this year? TXF Intelligence has taken a close look at the data...
The Delphic Oracle has spoken at TXF Global Export Finance Athens 2024 and the auguries are generally good for the export finance industry. We dig through some of the...
In this trade & export finance webinar, Mark Norris, Partner, and Daniela Barrdear, Counsel, examine the continued rise of social and governance issues looking at the...
How do you have a thriving offshore wind export business when you don’t, technically, have an offshore wind industry? Norway’s exporters are finding the answer, and of...
While the growth of untied ECA lending provides flexibility for ECAs to compete with non-OECD ECAs, the inconsistent methodologies of this nascent product are a reminder...
Following on from Sullivan's update on ECAs and DFIs in February, in this trade & export finance webinar, Mark Norris, Partner, and Daniela Barrdear, Counsel, consider in...
The Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) has the ‘gift of wind’ which has helped it position itself as a changemaker in renewable energy financing. But it’s not...
Northvolt’s latest big-ticket ECA-backed financing has set a benchmark for European gigafactory deals. But can Europe’s green industrial policy keep up with the pace of...
H2GS was founded by Vargas in 2020 and launched in 2021. Three years later it has finalised funding for the world’s first green steel mega project. How? By being open to...
As the commodity finance industry enters 2024, TXF takes a look at the results of its industry research report to assess the biggest challenges and trends facing traders...
TXF Intelligence has published its Global Commodity Trade Finance Industry Report for 2023. Read on to find the latest analysis on a host of topical industry concerns,...
As EKN passes its 90th anniversary milestone, celebrating its ‘wise old lady’ status, CEO Anna-Karin Jatko reflects on risks and the need for more cooperation in an...
Poland’s offshore wind sector is in the embryonic stage of project finance with no deal precedents to provide a viable financial template for future such deals. And now,...
As the UK Electronic Trade Documents Bill is enacted into law, with a start date in two months’ time, will the ‘build it they will come’ approach work for trade...
ECA-backed lenders to the world’s largest biomass power station in Teeside, England, are poised to inject £80 million of rescue financing into the project.
UKEF is ready for a reset with a new CEO in office and a new set of priorities, including a focus on opportunities for green exports. But how can ECAs ensure that their...
The spectre of increasing sovereign debt has the potential to swamp future export finance deals and projects in several African jurisdictions.
It’s not every day that bills of lading make the news, but an appeal ruling dismissing a $26 million case by a bank against a shipping company is causing ripples that...
The cruise ship sector has one of the biggest debt hangovers from the pandemic – a situation mirrored in slow ECA-backed cruise ship volumes. Cruise cashflow is picking...
The record surge in export finance volumes in 2023 was not just driven by existing banks writing larger tickets. TXF looks at the new lenders in export finance, and the regions, assets, and ECAs that drew them in, as well as what opportunities and dynamics this might create in the market.
EET Fuels is leading the development of a major UK hydrogen cluster around its Stanlow refinery operations. The company has put its decarbonisation plans firmly behind alternative fuels as it looks to diversify its operations from traditional oil & gas assets.
Edna Schoene, CEO of Euler Hermes, naturally chose the eponymous messenger Hermes as her legendary figure of choice when TXF spoke to her at Global 2024: Export, Project & Development Finance in Athens. But the discussion of the German ECA’s new transformational strategy was anything but mythological – faster, yes, but also leaner, greener, and better, will be the new watchwords. How will it be delivered?
US Exim has released its annual competitiveness report, and the story is familiar. While progress has been made in dealmaking since its 2019 reauthorisation, Exim remains a conservative ECA in comparison with the most active players in the market.
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